Bibcode
Bakos, J.; Trujillo, I.
Referencia bibliográfica
Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 16, pp. 354-354
Fecha de publicación:
3
2015
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0
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Descripción
One of the most outstanding predictions of the radial migration theory
was a progressive increase in the age of the stellar populations toward
the galaxy outskirts. This gradual change in the age is caused by a net
flux of old stars formed in the inner disk moving toward the outskirts.
Thanks to the fact that the age of stellar populations can be
interpreted in terms of colors, this prediction was confirmed
observationally a few years ago with deep surface brightness profiles of
a large sample of nearby galaxies. Our group has now taken a step
forward on this as we have explored the properties of the stellar
populations beyond the star formation threshold using ultra deep data
from SDSS Stripe82. These data allowed us to study the faint outskirts
of disks in detail down to a surface brightness level of 30 mag/arcsec2
in the r'-band. At these surface brightness levels spiral galaxies
reveal new and exciting structural components which could not have been
seen by regular SDSS imaging: outer disks extend farther out, tidal
streams and satellites become visible. We will present deep color
profiles of the regions of the galaxies where the disks starts to be
confused with the stellar haloes. We confront these colors with model
predictions. For some galaxies, the very outer regions are so red that
conventional IMFs can not explain their colors. We will discuss whether
our new results can be explained within the radial migration scheme.